PunditGuy is on to something interesting, and I hope conservative bloggers pick up on it. Websense, “global leader in web filtering, and premier provider of web security software, provides multilayered web filtering and web security solutions to increase productivity, optimize bandwidth and create a more secure internet environment for employees and organizations,” considers FOX News an advocacy group. As a result, the cable network’s web site is blocked, while other news outlets are not.
This is straight-up censorship, but private employers have the right to filter out junk coming through their network, and they apparently have no objections to the block. I think it’s foul, but it’s up to individual private companies to change.
PunditGuy says he’s contacted Websense to verify that FOX is blocked and why. Isn’t it strange how we’ve all become so used to the liberal bent of most organizations and media, that we’re not surprised by things like this? I haven’t done any research, so I’ll update you when PunditGuy updates me.
